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A letter from Leslie W. Miller of the Fairmount Park Art Association requesting permission to erect a bronze memorial tablet designed by Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary (1915), a description of the tablet submitted to the Art Jury, a letter from Art Jury secretary Andrew Wright Crawford acknowledging receipt of the submission and accompanying blueprints (1915), and a Fairmount Park Commission resolution to erect the tablet in Memorial Hall (1915).

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Includes a 1918 letter from Leslie W. Miller of the Fairmount Park Art Association to Thomas Martin, Secretary of the Fairmount Park Commission, notifying him of a resolution to offer the newly purchased Penguins sculpture by Albert Laessle to the Commission for installation at the entrance to the Bird House at the Philadelphia Zoo.

Scope and Contents Correspondence from Leslie W. Miller of the Fairmount Park Art Association formally presenting the cannons to Fairmount Park (1905), a letter from Edwin A. Barber of the Pennsylvania Museum advising that the cannons are being damaged by weather exposure and recommending transfer to Memorial Hall (1909), and correspondence from the Fairmount Park Art Association urging the Fairmount Park Commission to resist donating the cannons to the World War II scrap metal campaign and a resolution that...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: The Sculpture and Fountain Collection documents the public sculptures and fountains of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains photographs and visual materials depicting individual sculptures and fountains, ranging from nineteenth century works to contemporary installations. Series 2 contains administrative and historical records for individual sculptures and fountains, including correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, architectural drawings, clippings,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence from the New England Society of Pennsylvania offering the statue to the Fairmount Park Commission and requesting a site (1904), and correspondence regarding the relocation of the statue from its temporary location at City Hall to its permanent site on East River Drive, including efforts to raise $5,000 to transport the statue in time for the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims and an Art Jury resolution approving the relocation (1920). Also includes correspondence...